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_Showing the necessary positions. The rug the little girl is weaving is made of heavy carpet wool. The body of the rug is golden brown, with stripes of deep blue and green, separated by narrow stripes of white_]
Formerly Supervisor of Primary Schools, Minneapolis, Minn.
Rand, McNally & Company Educational Publishers Chicago New York London
_Chapter Three._ First Steps in Weaving 30
_Chapter Four._ Methods of Stringing Warp 42
_Chapter Seven._ Methods of Splicing Materials for Weaving 83
_Chapter Eight._ Wool and Silkoline Rugs or Mats 86
_Chapter Ten._ Face and Dish Cloths and Bath Rugs 99
_Chapter Fourteen._ Songs, Games, and Stories 143
_Chapter Fifteen._ A List of Helpful Books and Magazine Articles 153
The highest aim of art is to make some useful thing beautiful.
For many years we, the teachers of the United States assembled in village, city, State, and national conventions, have recited our creed and chanted it in all keys.
We believe that man is a trinity, three in one--head, heart, and hand, one soul made manifest; we believe that this union is vital and indissoluble, since "what God hath joined together" may not be rent asunder; we believe that this three-fold man, being "put to school" on earth to grow, may devise and bring to successful issue no scheme of education that is out of harmony with the plan of the Creator.
Congratulating ourselves upon our ready and distinct utterance of this lofty thought, we have calmly returned to our man-devised book-schools for the acquisition of knowledge, in order to forward some plan for the accumulation of more knowledge.